Cynthia Payne Quotes

While it's nice to appreciate the fashion world... what makes you happy are real relationships and the moments you share with loved ones.

How much of our lives is consumed with meeting people, attracting people, keeping people and missing people? Usually, when everything is resolved romantically in one of my books, the characters stop talking in my head, and I stop telling the story.

Remember that when you're young and your career feels like the most important thing, the most important thing is love and the relationships you have with people - boyfriend, friends and family. It's good to remember that.

However successful you are, there is no substitute for a close relationship. We all need them.

Sex does not exist for me at all. I haven't had a boyfriend for a long time. There were only three or four in my life up until now anyway.

For being in a relationship or to be linked up with somebody, you need to have time. I hang out with my friends just at my leisure, but there's no time to get into any link up.

I'm very much a 'boyfriend' type of guy. I've been in relationships since I was 16.

I would love to have a boyfriend one day.

When you're friends with someone, you can't just go out to dinner and say 'O.K., now this is a date.' You've got to do something very different.

Do not just look at your boyfriend as just a boyfriend. Look at him as a friend, too.

It's a lot easier to find a friend on television than love.

I do have a lot of time for people in my life, and friendship is a very important subject for me. I think I'm unusual among the writers I know in that respect.

I've been an important star and lived a full life, yet I only hve three close friends. I guess that's all anyone can expect.

I like spending time with my husband.

I couldn't put my hand on my heart and say I think that being in a relationship is a natural state for a human being.

I don't want to be alone my whole life. It is much more fun to share what you have than to have it to yourself. And it isn't like I don't have love in my life. I have a lot of friends who love me and who I love.

It's almost like when you're young, your friends take on the romance role, and then guys take on the role of your friends later.

It would be nice to have someone to go back to, a girl to call at the end of the night after a long day.

I never have actually had a girl who's made me laugh before.

I am convinced that material things can contribute a lot to making one's life pleasant, but, basically, if you do not have very good friends and relatives who matter to you, life will be really empty and sad and material things cease to be important.

I've had a couple of long relationships. And I've had a couple of shorter relationships.

I'm definitely one of those chicks who want to be in a relationship. I need somebody who can make me laugh and entertain me.

I have found that most of the things I want from living I must get from people.

Having girlfriends is... I can't do it. It doesn't mean I don't hang out with girls. It just means that I don't like being in a relationship, because it makes things very complicated. The one piece of advice that I listen to adults on - because I don't listen to adults when it comes to most things - is that I'm too young to have a girlfriend.

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.